Our global footprint for your success!

The Barth-Haas Group is the world's largest supplier of hops, hop products and services. The Group is family owned and is active on all continents. With offices in Germany, the United States, Australia, Switzerland, China and the United Kingdom, we are ideally placed to meet the needs of brewers, large and small, wherever they are located.

We are active in all parts of the supply chain from growing to recipe development and beer appreciation. Whether it be breeding or cultivation, quality assurance or the application of high performance hop products, we are there!

Joh. Barth & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG, Nuremberg, was founded in 1794 and has since become the market leader in hop trading and processing in Germany. While the business activities of Joh. Barth & Sohn were originally focused exclusively on hop trading, since the 1960s hop processing has become the company’s second main business field.

John I. Haas, Inc. was founded in 1914. The company owns and operates its own hop farms, warehouses, pellet and extraction plants as well as isomerisation facilities in the northwestern United States. Haas is the leader in the field of research and development of refined hop-based products for use in and outside the brewing industry.

Hop Products Australia in Hobart/Tasmania grows and processes hops for the domestic and world markets. The company pursues an intensive research programs concentrating on breeding new aroma and alpha varieties.

Botanix Ltd, with two facilities in the United Kingdom is the centre of excellence in the group for Hop Oils and Hop Aroma Products. Botanix also manufactures the full range of downstream products on behalf of the group at its.

BetaTec Hopfenprodukte GmbH was founded in Nuremberg in 1997. BetaTec is actively engaged in research and development, with its core competence in hops, and focuses in particular on developing applications for hop products outside the brewing industry. BetaTec is a 100% subsidiary of John I. Haas Inc.

Barth Innovations Ltd is a centre for innovation, servicing the R&D needs of the European member companies of the Barth-Haas Group, namely, Joh. Barth & Sohn GmbH, in Germany and UK. The goals of Barth Innovations Ltd. are to develop innovative, hop-based products, primarily for the global brewing industry. Improve manufacturing processes within the Group’s companies. Extend application expertise and technical support for the use of our products. Develop an R&D program relevant to the future needs of the Barth-Haas Group. Intensify co-operation with universities and other institutions.

NATECO², based in Wolnzach, began operations in the field of hop extraction in the 1960s. Today, the company is the world's largest manufacturer of hop extracts and natural substances produced using CO& as a solvent. Co-partner with an ownership share of 40% in NATECO² is Hopfenverwertungsgenossenschaft Hallertau (HVG).

The Barth-Haas Group also owns Hopfenveredlung St. Johann GmbH & Co. KG in St. Johann, which has its own research brewery and cold storage facilities equipped with state-of-the-art technology. Hopfenveredlung St. Johann operates the world's largest hop pelletization plant for pellet types 45 and 90. HVG is also a co-partner in Hopfenveredlung St. Johann with an ownership share of 40%.